beck123 wrote:... I imagine that even we wordaholics wouldn't go so far as to boycott an enterprise becasue it has made a grammatical error.

A million years ago I was on the air at a public radio station pitching for money late at night, and the phones were dead-- then we got a call from an English teacher who let us know she was not going to pledge any money until "that guy on the air" (not me- the other guy) stopped using the phrase "like I said" and change it to "as I said".

Since then I think of her every time I'm on the verge of saying "like I said", or like vs, as generally.

saparris wrote:I worked for a large engineering firm once. We had vice presidents who said pacific instead on specific and nucular instead of nuclear.

Heck, we've had a couple of presidents - from both sides of the aisle, no less - who said "nucular." I might be inclined to say that if you can't pronounce the darned thing, you shouldn't have access to the button and the codes.

But then again, the interest that we posters share in language is not universal. There are people interested in and even passionate about bottle caps and Barbie dolls - things most people could care less about (sorry if I offended any of my cyber friends with these examples.) Most people are the same way about language. It's a tool to them, no different than a hammer, and used with comparable finesse.